CONTRIBUTIONS TO POWER POSITIONS PROJECT AND ORR REVIEW OF INSPECTOR GENERAL SURVEY ON CIA CAREER SERVICE, JAN. 1960

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 9, 2001
• Sequence Number: 87
• Publication Date: March 24, 1960
• Content Type: REPORT

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This meeting was held for the purpose of discussing geographic
elements of national power and to select those which were signifioa-ut
in helping to assess relative 'Free World" vs. Sino-So ict Bloc
power positions.
A list of eleven elements considered to be basic and p, og "apbi c
was presented as a discussion tart. Many of the items were
but after prolonged discussion it was decided that elements such a,-
climate, natural resources and their development, population,
transportation and comunication, stages of cultural, economic,
and technological development were geo, ttphic only in so far as any
space-location aspects of them were concerned. These elements in
so far as their power relationships were concerned could be beat
handled by specialists in those fields, even though the Leo pher
does recognize their significance and inter-relationship:. A few
of the elements on the list were deteined to be truly geographic
and as such could legitimately be handled by the GRA. Rc n-nuclear
attack is not foreseen aIt this time on either the "Free World"
or the Sine-Soviet Bloc.
The elements that remained as being appropriate for our
evaluation were arranged in two o s
1, i tion1 size, shape and boundaries
Under this caption the effects of location, size and spe,
which all have space-location fentur+es, as well as the geographic
nature,, and implication, of the natural boundaries will be c:iscussed.
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SUgJECT: Review of the Inspector General's Survey of the CIA
Career Service
at the newly pr
do in detail, the survey does suggest that it would it : lvs
itself in recruitment ; selection, training, assess
advsncnt of personnel to Carry or, the work of
to : e u1.
also suggested that in addition to policy formulation, guidance- an-d
direction to career h
pe:ified relationship with tLc
1 and this Office of Training -- it weuld have w -thorn.
the DC1 for the direct i ntewticn of a career develop*
If these functions &,-A powers were rated tc such a board,
d, otherwise interfere in the line c p=r--
of these responsibilities as they relate to the accomplishment
organisational missions- . Line officials would be quite reluct n
relinquish the respod ibilities for selection of professional people
needed to Support their organization's intelligence mission. In
the responsibility they have for getting the intelligence job dons leads
them to the career development of capable individuals in their c?sr neat Fc-
d functional units does not take into full conaideratio is
of identifiable needs. The one thing that the line cos uid of
over-all need of the Agency for qualified generalists, who have broad
experience gained f'?ro n a variety of assigmen
look upon a fulfi rat of this latter need
It has generally been established that there are s
is a tendency to
of mane wc't
1 major nee:
Meer development program. The one would be to develop people to per or i
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Carter S -rv'ice
the specialized intelligence production futions in the Agency. -,s#i.
the other would be to train hR.
nt and capable people + o
fill key positions of a generalist t 'pe . This office 'eels that-
Career Development Board cannot sc cnpl.i.ssh the first
development as well as the line cot, and should
d type through tie development t.f policy to be
existing line organizational units.
4. Before an real judgment ca i t* mode of
the survey report, clarification ass to be made of the intelligence
officer and key Agen,ry position a&tegoriess. If these unique types of
work could be defined by identifying specific jobs in the Agency,
not in the loose term: used (such as "col.iectorss
"analysts", and "interpreters of information"), it would help to
id: just what is, meant by the need for personnel to fill A cency
5?
1. to recruit
aim, and "sign i atel ligenc :,
of getting experience to fill t
positions do" not take into consideration the fact that perm
1 good Agency intelligence functions
are equally qualified to develop into key Agency personnel. It wakes
little sense to ezen : professssionall competent econ snisets, gee =r.,, .ers .
scientists, and historians from such positions in favor of a body o?
by already
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ave been brought
-d to a speecifie inte1li-
ion and then trained., assigneed, and moved along to key
:tzar professionally y eeteent Intelligence spec?ialistn
e involved in the sai.n stress of national intelligence then
the s -called "intelligence officer" cadre.
6. The conclusions react-ad as to who is and. who is not am
e officer" is certainly contrary to the experience$ 0"5'
"specialists" -- including economists, historians, poli .ical
scientists, geograph ,, and scientists -- who have. been
work for any years. That the authors of the repo,
in intelligence as n
the specir.II
criests reflects a profound ignaarance o the-
es of the Agency, 'who they are, what they do, and --
__ he=w they are regarded in relation to he
teelligeence process- Ton this ,group of speoialitts W3
non-careerists Who should not be vi ,led with true careerists vould bp
eprive them of career development possibilities cnr side their i
of specialization, for which many of them are qualified. It
S in the Agcy to the so-called
Officer" group. We feel that it, would be justifiglale to predict the
hasty departure of the mt orityT of or professional ranks if this kind
of personnel policy were adored. The economic and geogra ie %r.lys';e
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R Reviev or the Inspector Gener
Ca eeer Service
in tR, with few ezeerticsns, think of _ 1
Office has repeated
in any disc
tified in this
ig ed that, no academic course of tra+ in't..r
is